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Success!!

I'm dead tired, about to watch some anime with my Best Beloved, and enjoy a whisky, so I'll keep it short.

We have a thawed pipe! We have hot water! Things are ever so much better than they were this time last night!

For $675, they'd better be, mutters the dour, money-watching part of me. But I'm just paying attention to the happy hot-water me right now.

w00t!!1!

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: the living room.
Current Music: the furnace
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/510644.html

Much Delayed

fandom_stocking Review

Here it is, almost February, and I haven't thanked all the lovely people who filled my stocking this year (and by this year, I mean December-January, says pedantic

kaffyr .) I loved everything, and was particularly tickled by the icons people made, and the recipes and recipe sites that people provided.

kingstoken gave me two lovely icons, one of Thirteen and one of Valkyrie, backed in a shade of my favorite color.

hopelesse gifted me with recs for some lovely fanvids. You should go over and check them out!

wendymypooh must have peeked into my food-loving brain, because she provided me with two candy recipes, and a comfort food recipe for chicken and dumplings. What a gift for cold winter days! Then, to top it off, she wrote me a Farscape fic, which may be the first time someone's written for me in one of my fave fandoms. It was wonderful, and any Farscape fans on my list would enjoy it, I'm sure.

tarlanx , from whose graphics skill I've benefited before, blessed me with a veritable cornucopia of <i>.Sapphire and Steel</i> icons. They're gorgeous.

thisbluespirit was wonderful, with two gifts; the first was her rec for Kitty Eden's Expressing the Inexpressible, and her link to her own wonderful tumblr lineup of Elements. Then she wrote a beautifully dense, witty, and sweet Sapphire and Steel fic, One Night Stand, for which I can't thank her enough; the story provides wonderful cameos for several Elements, interacting with Silver, my favorite Element.

highlander_ii provided me with four different cooking blogs, and I'm already making use of them; Alton Brown's is wonderful fun, and the Budget Bites blog has proven extremely helpful!

liadtbunny remembered my love of narwhals and found me several absolutely gorgeous pieces of narwhal art, which made me squee.

hamsterwoman enriched my collection of The Goblin Emperor icons, and since I've dived into that tiny fandom with a great deal of joy (the book is my go-to comfort read), these beauties were most definitely welcomed.

alexcat noted my love for the MCU universe, and wrote a delightful bit of Cap/Sharon smut for me. I'm grinning just thinking about it.

falcon_horus gifted me with a most original stocking stuffer - two online puzzles. I love puzzles, so this was my jam.

To all of you - thanks from the bottom of my heart!

fandom_stocking is a favorite time of year for me. both the giving and receiving, and your stocking stuffers gave me great joy.

Current Mood: thankful
Current Location: the living room.
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/510234.html

We Escaped 2018

... and I loved the Dr. Who New Year special. It solidified my feelings about this season; I loved it, for reasons that might run counter to those of other folks.

I'm heading to bed right now, so I'll have to leave my explanation for another time. But I know what I liked, and I'll do my best to explain in another post.

Current Mood: excited
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/508731.html

Retired

And drinking a martini before going to a concert.

Talk to y'all later.

Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/507199.html

Can I Get An "Amen, Sister!"?

I sure as hell hope so, because this woman is so very, very correct.

(Except the part where she says she thinks Americans are overly polite. WUT ... you crazy Britons, you ....)

Current Mood: angry
Current Location: the living room.
Current Music: Talking with My Best Beloved
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/504231.html

"Rosa"

I approached this one with a certain amount of trepidation. It's U.S. history, about America's particular, and particularly virulent, racism (which is not to suggest that there isn't virulent racism of various flavors damned near everywhere, but yes, this is in my wheelhouse, so I was worried that it could have been mishandled.) It's written by Brits. The story could have gone very wrong. It didn't, in my opinion. Comments that follow are both Doylist and Watsonian and are under the cut because, while I tried to keep them fairly spoiler-free and I think I was successful, I don't want to take that for granted.

( Possibly spoiler-free, but I'm not sure. )

Current Mood: impressed
Current Location: the living room.
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/503223.html

Forty-Eight Hours

You'd think that Bob and I would be relatively dispassionate about Andy's and Em's wedding, since they're handling it themselves, paying for it, organizing it, etc. No such luck. It may be only indirectly ... crazy by osmosis ... but, since Andy's and Em's heads are ready to explode, so are ours.

That's part of the reason why I haven't been posting. The frenetic pace of the wedding's approach has reminded us that positive stress is still stress. And part of that stress is just the all encompassing nature of this oncoming event. We wake up in the morning thinking about it, and it's the last thing we think about at night. Just imagine how Andy and Em feel ... I think their heads are ready to explode.

Having one's head filled with nothing but weddingweddingWEDDINGauughh means that my ability to chat about anything was severely straitened.

My brother Mac has arrived from Canada in advance of the wedding, and it's lovely to have him here. I'm surprised at the ease with which we've conversed thus far. I think Bob's reminder to me not to get too tense around Mac was very helpful.

OK, that's enough - we leave for the wedding venue tomorrow morning, the wedding's Saturday afternoon, and we'll be back sometime mid-Sunday. I promise pictures when I get back, and I promise my head will be considerably more communicative.

Current Mood: stressed
Current Location: the living room.
Current Music: WDCB jazz livestream
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/490106.html

Some Nights Just Call for Roxy Music. And Eno.

Way back in 1995, a music journalist named Rob Chapman wrote a piece on Roxy Music, entitled "They Came From Planet Bacofoil", and something reminded me of the piece, which was very good. I was pleased to see that you can still find it (without the pictures of the deliciously ridiculous early Roxy Music sartorial choices that generated the title). Here it is.

It made me nostalgic for two ends of Roxy's musical spectrum: the dreamy sound-poems of late Roxy and early solo Bryan Ferry (when he could keep guitarist Phil Manzanera under control), and Brian Eno's early masterpieces, featuring Robert Fripp's gloriously insane work. (Actually, I love later Eno as well, but tonight I was thinking more "Baby's On Fire," to which BB introduced me so many years ago.)

So without further ado, let's start with something ... energetic:

Watch on YouTube

And then cool down with something beautifully, romantically morose.

Watch on YouTube

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Location: the living room.
Current Music: Roxy Music "Oh Yeah"
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/486465.html

31Title: Hearts and Moons Recall the Truth
Author:

kaffyr
Chapter: 31
Previous Chapter: 30, here or here
Characters: The Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which there are, at long last, endings and beginnings.
Author's Note: I couldn't get it done in a decade, but 11 years seemed to be the magic time period. Thank you to everyone who stuck with this ridiculously lengthy WIP; I hope it's been worth the wait, despite 11 years of changing writing style and prowess, and undoubtedly some messed up plot points. (Too many years, and too many chapters, and perhaps not enough careful reviewing by Your Humble Author, to blame for that last.)
Many thanks to those who helped me keep at it, and who helped in many different ways. Thank you to

a_phoenixdragon ,

editrx and

ljgeoff , and always, always, always, my Best Beloved,

dr_whuh (aka

buckaroobob ). You are the absolute best, and I love you more than cookies.
And of course, thanks and love to everyone I wrote about: to Luisa, Filomena, Nico, Hilda, Salvha and Jao, to David, to Pau and Laowhra, even to Inverno and the elder Bohlver. Thanks, especially, to the Doctor, Rose, and Jack, the OT3 of my heart. What shall I do without this story of yours to tell?
Finally, thank you to

cathica, whose prompt all those years ago started this journey. She's an immensely talented writer and a lovely person, and this is all because of her. Thank you!
Disclaimer: As much as I wish it were otherwise, no Whoniverse characters are mine. They belong to the BBC and their respective creators. I intend no copyright infringement and take no coin. I simply love them, and thank the BBC for letting me play in their sandbox.

******( Read more... )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: the living room.
Current Music: big band music, WDCB radio
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/486190.html

Boo-Yah!

Tonight, when I go to my monthly union local meeting, I fully expect my emotions to be, as the subject line says, whipsawed.

Still mourning Jerry. Many of us at the meeting will mourn him as well. But we're also celebrating this news (it's been a long time coming), and I know Jerry would be so incredibly happy to hear this news. I'm hoping he's looking down (or up, or sideways, or from That Other Dimension of Perfect Justice) and cheering. God knows, he helped get us here.

So on his behalf?

BOO-YAH!

(Yes, the union election has yet to take place, but our remarkable organizers wouldn't have announced it, wouldn't have gone public with the news — or the very sophisticated pro-union Trib newsroom employee website — if we didn't have a fairly strong expectation that we'll win this one. I'm knocking wood as I say that, of course.)

Still ...

BOO-YAH!

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Location: the home office
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/484129.html

You Are Reading a Post from the Ex-Condo Association President

w00t!!!1!

There are some things that have to be done - getting my name off the bank account, and getting six years of records over to the new president - but that will all be done sometime in the next week or so.

I am so very pleased!

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Location: the livingroom
Crossposts: https://kaffyr.livejournal.com/467378.html

This Is What Success Looks Like ...

( Under here .... )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: the livingroom
Current Music: The AC. I love the AC
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/460226.html

YESS!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes we CAN have nice things.

Here, and here.

Current Mood: jubilant
Current Location: the livingroom
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/459817.html

I. Am. On. Vacation.

Which should give me a chance to:

1. Decorate the tree that's been standing, nude, in our livingroom for the past two days. Late start, anyone?
2. Finish my holiday cards. I got 19 out this week and if I can get the same number done tomorrow, people will get them before ... uh ... New Year's? Maybe?
3. Tell the story of Andy's tale of woe - stolen guitar, smashed car window - which then turned into an honest-to-god Christmas tale of loveliness.
4. Wrap presents.
5. Cook a goose.
6. Write ALL THE FIC for

fandom_stocking . (I have a stocking up myself, and here it is, but that's not quite as important as WRITING ALL THE FIC.)

More, later, after I've decompressed into holiday cheer. Oh, and a martini

ETA: Huh. I can't get through to LJ, ("Bad Gateway") and it's not cross-posting. Anyone else seeing those problems?.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: the livingroom
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/433231.html

Game 7, World Series, Cubs ... Armageddon?

Believe it or not, I'm actually working tonight - going to a hastily-organized Cubs-watching party in one of my towns. It means I'll be forced to look at the game, which could be fatal, but it could also provide me with a cover for next week. And, hey, it may be fun. Yes, yes, of course, it could be absolutely heart-breaking, but let's just ignore that for now.

I'm just going to leave these two videos here, both songs by the late devoted Cubs fan Steve Goodman, one a gently snarky tribute to the team's ability to make us weep, and the other a paean to Cubs' fans boundless optimism.

Go, Cubs!

"Steve Goodman: A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" (Watch on YouTube)

"Go Cubs Go - Steve Goodman" (Watch on YouTube)

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: the home office
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/427561.html

I Am Watching

I hope this isn't a bad thing.

Current Mood: anxious
Current Location: the livingroom
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/426983.html

CUBS!! WIN!!

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Location: North Side Chicago
Current Music: CUBS WIN!!!
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/426459.html

She Said Yes.

And I am just about as happy as my First Born. She will be wearing a ring from my great-great grandmother.

Welcome to the family, Emily!

Current Mood: jubilant
Current Location: the livingroom
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/417866.html

The Weekend. Dear Lord, the Weekend

Monday: Sinead
Tuesday: More Sinead
Wednesday: Union rep at two discipline hearings, 1 clearcut, 1 less so. Learned I'd be getting another town added to my beats, with at least 3 more beats in said town.
Thursday: Can't remember, because of Monday-Wednesday. Not enough stories written
Friday: Results of discipline hearings. Teh Suck. Not enough stories written.

BUT ... This

"Hymn to Friday" (Watch on YouTube)

Also, old-fashioned jazz, and a mimosa.

And a very handsome husband.

Maybe things are looking up?

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: living room
Current Music: Spade Cooley: Blonde Fiddler Blues
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/411303.html

Captain America: Civil War

I'm waiting to see if my computer will successfully upgrade to Windows 10, so I'm hunting and pecking this out on the iPad. That means that this post won't be long or involved. Still, I wanted to say that my Mothers Day present was breakfast (real breakfast at a corner diner, not a "brunch") with BB, FB and Ms Emily, and then we saw "Captain America; Civil War."

First, a side trip, to New York Times movie reviewer A.O. Scott's (I'm sure he'd prefer being called a film reviewer. Suck it, Scott) review of CA:CW. It's here if you want to read it. I read it, and ....

I don't believe I've read such an aggressively condescending review in years. It's not just what he says, it's how he says it - the "Look I really, really want all of you to understand that I didn't want to see this ~~film~~ ~~movie~~ picture, but it's how I pay the rent, and now I'm going to go back and watch "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" for the billionth time to remind myself of what I really want to see."

Dude.

I get it, you're meant for the finer things in life. But really? Did you have to pour all that refined venom into the mix?

I mean, maybe he actually hates "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," so perhaps I'm being a little harsh on him ...

Still?

Duuude.

Then I realized what happened here. He didn't actually go see the movie I saw.

Well, that cleared that up.

Maybe tomorrow I'll have a better post about CA:CW, but for now I'll say I found it extremely well written, remarkably well paced, respectful of both its actors and its characters, and filled with very chewy ideas.

Current Mood: cranky
Current Location: Going to bed
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/410108.html

So:

fandom_stocking

The reason I haven't been posting over the last few days is that I descended into full on Writing For Stockings mode. I'm a dreadfully slow writer, but I actually managed eight relatively lengthy fics, did a few graphic greetings and ... and I may have time before the slightly-delayed-by-moderator-migraine Friday stocking reveal to do more. I am, for a wonder, happy!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: going to the livingroom
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/393698.html

Season's Greetings

Now that (American) Thanksgiving has passed, I am revving up to start my Season of Reaching Out. I would love to be able to send out holiday cards at this, the darkest time of the year, to everyone who's helped brighten my year. If you'd like a card from me, please PM me with your address, and it will make me very happy to send you a card - anyone, from anywhere!

ETA: be sure to let me know if you'd like a particular kind of holiday card, or would prefer to not get any particular kind of holiday card!

Current Mood: dorky
Current Location: The livingroom
Current Music: Looking for some now
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/389814.html

Buh-bye, Stephen.

Yes, yes, I know he kept his own riding.

But his party lost. And he's going to resign his party leadership.

Yes, the party I'd have voted for if I were still living in Canada managed to scuttle itself right back down to third party also-ran status. Bad NDP, no cookies ... but ... but -

The fucking Conservatives are out of power.

Out. Of. Power.

Yessssssssss!!!!!

So, Justin? You'd best do a good job.

Current Mood: giddy
Current Location: Going to bed
Current Music: CBC election coverage
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/383170.html

The Martian

(Warning; not a real review, just an immediate reaction.)

Went to see this movie tonight, and I have to echo what a lot of people have said - it's awesome. It's hard science fiction, with brain and heart, which means it does Campbell and Gernsback right, the way Campbell and Gernsback didn't, so ... without a lot of racism, sexism, etc., and with a great deal more literary and filmic sophistication than those two might ever have imagined - but still with a lot of true love for, and belief in, the power of logic, science, optimism, humanism and determination to move forward.

Or as hero botanist Mark Watney (portrayed wonderfully by Matt Damon) says, when presented with yet another life-threatening scenario, "I've got to science the shit out of this." And he does, while a totally admirable group of science heroes back on earth do their damnedest to help him out (not always successfully.)

The look and feel of it was gorgeous; I felt like we were looking at Mars, even as I knew that we weren't.

If this doesn't win the Hugo for best long form drama (or whatever the hell they call it next year), I'll either cry foul, or prepare myself to see the film of a lifetime if the winner actually tops The Martian.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Going to bed
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/381592.html

So. Bright Like the Sun; and Dark, and Kind

( Here's to Strong Finishes )

Current Location: The livingroom
Crossposts: http://kaffyr.livejournal.com/379925.html

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DW Fiction: Hearts & Moons Recall the Truth, Chap. 31/31 FINAL

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Who Review: The Witch's Familiar